 Montignac Diet Montignac Diet Principles
The Montignac Diet become very popular in Europe in the 1990s. This diet relies on the idea of classifying carbohydrates according to their glycemic index (GI). The GI is a ranking system for carbohydrates based on their effect on blood glucose levels after having a meal.
Thus, high GI carbohydrates are considered to be bad and shouldn't be taken together with fats because combined with fats will lead to the fats being stored as body fat.
Montignac Diet Menu
The main principal is choosing our food avoiding the following high GI carbohydrates:
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Corn syrup
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115
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Beer
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110
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Glucose (dextrose), glucose syrup
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100
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Wheat syrup, rice syrup
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100
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Modified starch
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100
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Fried, scalloped, mashed or oven cooked potatoes
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100
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Rice flour
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95
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Potato flour (starch)
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95
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Sticky rice
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90
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Corn flakes, pop corn
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85
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Carrots (cooked)
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85
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Celeriac, knob celery, turnip rooted celery (cooked)
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85
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Instant/parboiled rice
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85
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Hamburger buns
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85
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White wheat flour
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85
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White sandwich bread, bagels, doughnuts
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85
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Puffed rice, rice milk, rice cake/pudding
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85
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Tapioca
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85
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Remember that lunch must be the main meal of the day. A sample Montignac Diet menu giving many meal options:
Breakfast
- whole wheat bread with lighten margarine, decaffeinated coffee and skim milk
Lunch
- avocado with vinaigrette sauce; green salad with tomatos and olive oil; chef salad of cheese
- fruit salad
Snacking
- outcakes topped with low-fat cheese
- almonds, hazelnuts
Dinner
- vegetable soup; one boiled egg
- mushrooms omelette; green salad; beef steak with kidney beans
- chopped apples with fromage frais
The Truth about Montignac Diet
This diet allows you to eat and drink non-boring, varied foods and makes no one feel that they are a food crank. Furthermore, it has been included by the Forbes Magazine among the list of ten diets that work. However, Montignac's theories haven't been scientifically proved. Researchers said this diet might lead to nutrition imbalances: the method would lead to too much saturated fat intake and deficiencies in vitamin A, vitamin D and linolic fatty acid uptake. Other researchs on the glycemic index showed that in mixed fat/carbs meals the concept is of little value. |
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